managing your own learning
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If you are not actively keeping up with your own learning and professional development, you are falling behind. Learn how to build a Personal Learning Network (PLN) to provide you with learning from leaders, experts and colleagues around the world.TRANSCRIPT
Managing Your Own Learning
Bob Bertsch & Sonja FuchsWeb Technology SpecialistsNDSU Ag Communication
Who’s Managing Your Learning
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW7aBOPYHx0
Formal education is a walk through the zoo, informal learning is a walk through the savannah. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/godutchbaby/4432480199/
Formal education is knowing a tomato is a fruit, informal learning is not using it in fruit salad. http://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elanaspantry/3554762608/
Formal education is bricks and mortar, social learning is clouds and streamshttp://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/2768391365/
Formal education is the playbook, social learning is the huddlehttp://stephenwhart.com/quotes/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whetzel/55214370/
What is a learning network?
a deliberately formed network of people and resources capable of guiding our
independent learning goals and professional development needs.
Content Commentary Research ConversationExperience
Colleagues FriendsExperts
Filter FilterFilter
Filter
YOU
FilterCreationCurationSharing
Adapted from “Creating a Personal Learning Network,” http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387
My learning network?
Content
Zite
Google Reader
Google Alerts
Social
Google +
Curation
Diigo
Scoop.it
Google Alerts
Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds new results -- such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs -- that match your search term. You can use Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web.
For example, people use Google Alerts to:• find out what is being said about their company or product.• monitor a developing news story.• keep up to date on a competitor or industry.• get the latest news on a celebrity or sports team.• find out what's being said about themselves.
• http://www.google.com/alerts• Delivered by email (daily, weekly, or as
found)• RSS available for Google accounts
Google Alerts
Content
• blogs• news sites• online journals• videos• podcasts• social media
YOUlaptop - http://www.flickr.com/photos/computermonger/, smartphone - http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewcf/, ipad - http://www.flickr.com/photos/leondel/.
Online content for your learning network?
What are RSS feeds?
• RSS = Really Simple Syndication
• Feeds allow websites to send updates to you without you having to visit the site to get it
• There are three common types of feeds - RSS, XML and Atom
• As an end user, it doesn't really matter which format the site uses
• You can subscribe to a feed from any website and read all your feeds in a feed reader, in your browser or in some email clients
Feed Reader
Blogs
Google alerts Podcasts
Feed-enabled sites
Utilities
News RSS feeds
Blog RSS
Blogs typically offer feeds of their posts, and sometimes comments. The feed may contain the full post, or just an excerpt.
Google Reader
http://www.google.com/reader
Power/value of network
• Exposure to incidental information– You don’t know what you need to know
• Asking questions• Connectedness• Awareness of trends• What are others doing / talking about
• Exposure to incidental information– You don’t know what you need to know
• Asking questions
• Connectedness
• Awareness of trends
• What are others doing / talking about
How to find people
• Start with who you already know• Connections:
– Who follows you?– Who do they follow?– Who follows them?– Who do they retweet?– Look at lists
• Start with who you already know
• Find people to follow?
• Who do they follow?
• Who follows them?
• Who do they retweet and repin
Outside the network
• Speakers at conferences• Authors• Business cards• Email signatures
Find by topic
• Hashtags (e.g., #netlit, #mfln)• Search• Websites• Subject matter experts
Search for Topics on Twitter• Go to twitter.com
or search.twitter.com
• Type a topic in the search bar
• Use the “Tweets” tab for people who have tweeted the term
Search for Topics on Twitter
Check for better search results by using a hashtag.
• Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context to tweets.
• You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
• Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.
Your activity matters
• If you are active in online networks, and engage with others, interesting people will find you.
• For example:– @JerryBuchko and Military Families Learning
Network and Network Literacy
Harold Jarche – www.jarche.com
Connect With Us:• Twitter - twitter.com/ndbob
- twitter.com/SonjaNDSU• Facebook - facebook.com/NDSUAgCommWebServices• Email – [email protected]